Bulgarian gas transmission system operator Bulgartransgaz has opened a 9.8
million lev ($5.7 million/5.0 million euro) tender for the design and drilling
of a well at Chiren underground gas repository, a tender notice
indicated.
The works envisioned in the tender should be completed within
360 days, a tender published on the website of the country's Public Procurement
Agency indicated last week.
The value of the contract is given net of
Value Added Tax.
Bids can be submitted until March
25.
Bulgartransgaz is a subsidiary of state-owned Bulgarian Energy
Holding.
The company said last year that the capacity of the underground
natural gas storage facility in Chiren is planned to be increased by the end of
2018, in stages, to 1.0 billion cubic metres (bcm) from the current 550 million
cubic metres (mcm) with daily withdrawal and injection capacity reaching 10 mcm,
up from the current 4.2 mcm daily for withdrawal and 3.16 mcm for
injection.
Also last year, Bulgartransgaz, together with gas monopoly
Bulgargaz, signed with Azeri state-owned gas and oil company SOCAR a memorandum
of understanding for a possible joint project for the expansion of the Chiren
storage facility.
The companies will explore opportunities for a joint
upgrade of the gas depot in Chiren and will also draft technical options for
additional routes and/or sources of natural gas supplies to Bulgaria in the
short term, Bulgartransgaz added.